I Just Finished the First Draft of My Next Novel and I Want to Set It on Fire

I probably won’t, but still

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76,141. That was the final word count after I typed the last sentence of the first draft of my next novel last week. To say I was on a high at the end of that day would be a massive understatement. After nearly three years of fits and starts, I had taken Simon Dillon’s sage advice, set a…